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John Barth's 'Lost in the Funhouse'

This is a book review consisting of 5 pages that considers the collective work of short stories and essays and how the works stead...

Representations of Taiwan

legitimate government of both Taiwan and China began to change in the 1990s when democracy was introduced and new leaders were ele...

Poetry, Recreation, Cinema, and Ethnicity

In five pages social and cultural ethnic representations in a Johnson short story, Divakaruni and Clifton poetic themes are discus...

American Literary Symbolism

353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...

Communities and Their Members

of community is under discussion. When asked if members of the community "look like you," its likely that the discussion centers ...

Comparison of Clever Manka and The Story of an Hour

story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...

Short Stories

friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily,' Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' and Gothic Elements

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

Judaism in the Works of Franz Kafka

In five pages the ways in which Judaism ins represented in Franz Kafka's works are examined with an emphasis upon his story 'Metam...

A Study of U.S. Immigration Law and Policies

This 15 page paper discusses U.S. immigration policies and laws in history and as they are today. The writer argues that American ...

A Kind Gesture

I smiled and nodded, but I wasnt sure if he was offering me his seat or just making a general observation. "Come on," he said. "...

Poe's Cask of Amontillado

33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...

Faulkner and Glaspell: Two Short Stories

men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...

Feminist Interpretations of Two Short Stories

It does not necessarily make men evil or bestial, but it does recognize that we live in a patriarchal society and that the structu...

Two Short Stories by Jin and Chopin

comes to bail him out is tied to a tree in the jails courtyard and tortured; finally the ordeal ends when Mr. Chiu signs a false c...

Two Short Stories: “He” and “The Loons”

different we have no possible common ground, we can also justify destroying them. This is why we never consider enemy combatants a...

Grotesque in the Works of Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner

In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...

Contrasting and Comparing "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien with "Luck" by Mark Twain

A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...

Imagery in Two Short Stories by Kate Chopin

This essay describes how Kate Chopin, a nineteenth century female author ahead of her time, utilized imagery in writing the "Desir...

Two Short Stories on the Family

Raymond Carver's A Small Good Thing and John Updike's Separating both deal with the family. This paper examines the two short stor...

Short Fiction Characterization

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....

Response to Outside Influence in Two Short Stories

of superstition that he is there to stamp out. He suggests that the villagers build a new path skirting the school grounds; he rem...

'Trial by Combat' by Shirley Jackson

In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...

An Analysis of Two Short Stories from A Bird in the House

The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...

'Emilie Plead Choose One Egg' by Paule Barton

In six pages this short story considers the author's diagnosis for what is ailing the Caribbean culture and how it can be cured as...

Raymond Carver and Relationships

that what they hoped for at collage. However, the betrayal by Duane despite the beauty of Holly. Carver starts to indicted the way...

Elements of Short Stories

Short story success is based on a variety of factors, and this paper examines those elements. For example, the use of surprise an...

'Loverboys' by Ana Castillo

our traditional notions regarding love and romance. She doesnt want any one "box" to define love or sex. The lesbian with a man ...

Romanticism in Two Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

gothic tone, which is a feature of romanticism. Goodman Brown soon arrives at his destination as he meet a man who has been wait...

Italo Calvino/"The Adventure of a Reader"

rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...